Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Three

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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thread Twenty-Three (Index)

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The Threat Matrix

The title refers to a daily report given to the president of the United States detailing the most serious terrorist threats against the country. To tackle those threats, the government has formed a top-notch task force to infiltrate the terror cells and cut off the danger.

"Every morning, the president receives a list of the top ten terrorist threats - this list is known as the threat matrix."

We here at FR are trying to be in conjunction with the daily reports around the world that involve threats. We try to provide a storehouse of information that takes hours of research.

YOU be the judge and get informed!

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LNG ship attack a potential disaster
Full Story

WASHINGTON - A terrorist attack on a tanker loaded with liquefied natural gas could cause massive damage a third of a mile away and could send a vapor cloud billowing more than 1.5 miles, government scientists say.

With the the nation clamoring for more natural gas, policy-makers are trying to figure out how to safely import large quantities of liquefied natural gas or LNG.

Related:
Terror attack the top danger of LNG transport, study finds
Google Search: "LNG"

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"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat."

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[Myrddin]

Good lord - good thing I can't afford to fly anymore. :-)

I wish I could take advantage of that excuse. My schedule has me flying to Birmingham, AL/Las Vegas, NV/Washington, DC/Rome, Italy/Pueblo, CO. That's just what I have booked between now and the 3rd week of March. Barely time to come home, wash clothes and pack for the next trip.

[FairOpinion]

A very detailed "must read" article full of facts about the connection going back years, between Iran and Al Qaeda.


Iran and Osama: Match Made In Hell

http://globalpolitician.com/articles.asp?ID=291&t=Iran+and+Osama%3A+Match+Made+In+Hell

[Myrddin]

The best plans and equipment are useless unless there is constant drill and training.

Our city paid significant money for a police dog and sent an officer to train with him. The officer was promoted to Lieutenant. He warms an office chair all day while the dog sits in a kennel. The officer took the dog out to demonstrate his capabilities last week. The dog just sat quietly. Didn't do a thing. Failure to drill the dog on a regular and frequent basis has resulted in a total loss of response. The city is just paying for a fancy house pet for a police officer.

[Myrddin]

However I wonder that since energy companies have been deregulated, are they spending thier capital more on market speculation rather than doing routine preventative maintainance on thier infrastructure? The old profit ahead of public safety thing.

I'm a strong supporter of free market capitalism. Unfortunately, we have a generation of executives that have trained themselves to narrowly focus on the profits for NEXT QUARTER. Executives of public companies feel compelled to worry more about short term stock holder returns and don't pay much attention to the long term health of a company. A big part of the problem is the board of directors policies. If the executives were required to hold stock options for 5 years before they could exercise them, they would pay a lot more attention to the long term health of a corporation.

[JustPiper]

All of us have committed sin.
All of us cannot say we have not asked God to forgive us for hurting someone.

But what about the Bully who made us feel so small, made us question ourselves,
Humiliated and degraded us?

As good Christians we are taught to turn the other cheek, to forgive, to pray for that Bully.

That same Bully can torture innocent, defenseless, animals who are not able to do these things.

That same Bully can grow up without a conscience and know exactly how to manipulate the law or his parents.

That same Bully can molest his neighborhood child and maybe even kill them.

Then there is the seasoned criminal, psychopath who society deems as an illness called sociopathy. Meaning he in someway had a tortured childhood, is a genetic u-turn and society enables this person to commit crimes guilt free.

A parent who is not willing to acknowledge or recognize that in someway, they are not accountable for their abuse to their child. Many adults are not even willing to understand what accountability even means.

Then we go to the mindset of the terrorist, who kills in the name of Allah. And they are right with their God in doing this and reasoning this.

We have all cried, pleaded and been at a position in our lives suffering a tragedy or incident that was so tremendous that the only way we could hang onto a sliver of sanity
and grace to find solace in praying. Many of us know that prayer is all we have sometimes and it does get us through.

I have seen so much hypocrisy in people alleging to be devout. They go to church, they confess and they believe this is what makes a good Christian. Some listen to inspirational music and read the bible and feel this makes them absolved from any wrong they do.

I use to see men get drunk, beat their wives. I saw one man do this and cheat on his very wedding night. But he made his confession to his priest, went to church Sunday, received his communion and thought all was right with the world.

I know a woman, someone very closely related, who is a born again Christian who is on the bandwagon for marching for every cause, helping her fellowman but she has been apathetic to her own son who for no misfortune of his own, wound up on drugs and homeless. He reached out to be turned away.

My grandfather always taught me to live by charity is from the heart. You do not turn your back on family. He taught me you do not need to go to church to be pray, you do not need to support the Vatican to get absolution and you certainly can stand right in God’s eyes and be a wonderful person with a Christian attitude and not be as those I mentioned above.

So you are asking yourself where am I going with this. Yes I have had an epiphany, yes I’ve seen some light at the end of my very long tunnel.

Having a conscience means making a conscious choice. In order to feel guilt and to repair any damage you do to another means accountability to self. The problem with the world today is far too many are not willing to acknowledge this.

When they cut that guy off in traffic or get cut off their first response is Anger. We all know what anger can lead to. People have gotten to where they do not even try and control or understand their emotions and thus their consequences.

The repeated felon surely is not concerned. The pedophile has no internal conflicts. The terrorist justifies his acts through religion.

But what if we did not have to wait for The Day of Judgment?!

What if “What you reap, you sow” was an everyday reality in “this” life?

God has the power without vengeance to make hate stop. Evil, crime etc.

What if we didn’t have to see an “Eye for an Eye” in the afterlife?

And what if it could bring ‘true’ peace?

Wars would cease. No terrorist in any form would be able to instill fear.

And to accomplish this all without striking them down. All this resulting in a victim not feeling their choices are limited to revenge or comeuppance.

To make those who use another’s weakness or vulnerability against them will never see any reason not to do this unless they are made to. Rehabilitation in our penal systems obviously does not work.

What if we didn’t need guns for self-defense but our weapon would be praying for the right thing against our enemies.

Well, I prayed recently with a grievous heart and non-stop tears against the latest attack on me and my children. I prayed that the person who hurt me, have the pain in my children’s hearts and minds and my own ‘Reflected’ back on them.

Creative visualization is a powerful tool combined with prayer. In my mind’s eye I built an invisible mirror around my children and myself. I asked God to have this bully have what she caused reflect back from this mirror into her heart,mind and touch her soul and to reach into her spirit. For the damage she caused our spirit’s, I only asked she feel that. I also asked God if the pain became unbearable for her to reach out to God as I then was, to tell him as I did:

“God, this burden hurts too much too bear, I know you carry me and my children who were a gift from you.” I asked that she turn to God to carry her load and ask forgiveness for the pain she caused. I simply wanted her to ‘feel’ it, bringing a blessed remorse. To me this was the only solution in my dire hour. For I felt it didn’t depend on her own conscience, morals of the wrong she had inflicted. THAT was not going to happen.

If someone is ‘made’ to truly SEE the pain they inflict, sometimes even emotional or mental torture, especially physical and THEN be made to FEEL it unto themselves, how better for them to not repeat this pain to another? An Eye for an Eye without physical punishment or manmade laws that do not work.

Make someone face THEMSELVES!

I know *I” have looked in a mirror. I know *I” have seen ugly and God does not like ugly. By ugly I mean an ugly heart. A mean intention. A cruelty I hurt someone innocent with. It is the hardest thing to face ‘ourself’ and to look in a mirror when we are angry or hateful.

Instead of trying to figure out the‘why’ of someone unjustly or unfairly attacking you, or what that poor person must be feeling, let them look at themselves, so when they zero in on a target for any reason, it ricochets back at them. A true “In Your Face”.

I forgave a stalker. I turned the other cheek. He tried to kill me a second time. For three years I lived in constant fear. I learned every technique of learning to making strong coping mechanisms. He was a repeat felon who served prison time and plead out 4 felony counts against me. As many victims I was further victimized by the judicial system and he was given nine years probation. And I am still looking over my shoulder after twenty years for him because of that.

My brother was murdered by another repeat offender. As we all know money talks and his killer walked.

What is done for murdered children? What is done to the rapist or terrorist?

Aren’t you tired of asking yourself:

“Why do Bad things happen to Good People?”

Those of us do read self-help books, we seek advice, we pray to God, we are just trying to survive in an ever increasing world of hurt and anger, humiliations and intense emotion suffering. Many from those bullies that have no spiritual backbone.

It is a GUARANTEE if they had to face ‘themselves’, they who do not fear nor respect God, they who do not worry about being judged or punished by our laws, those who laugh at us their victims, if they had NO choice but to see, then feel the crime or deed they inflicted well, can you not see this is the truest weapon of Self-Destruction.

We do not have to stoop to their level to protect ourselves or other’s they may hurt somewhere down the road. We can use our prayer to ask God to incarcerate them in their own world of cause and affect. This would be the truest rehabilitation for the most real consequence for their conscious choice. This would be a true Victim’s Prayer for spiritual justice.

Psychiatrists, psychologists, no medical doctor can make someone have a conscience. Bullies of all sorts just do not care. Criminal minds have not one clue not to commit their crime. They should be made to judge “Themselves” plain and simple.

Let us free ourselves from any pain another causes us. Let us not allow “Ill will” to fester in ‘our’ souls. Obliterate vengeful thoughts and feelings. Do not feel shame because
other ‘s treat us shameless.Ease the fear of being helpless.Do not poison your soul with anger at this helplessness.Do not allow self-loathing because you do not have the power to stop them. Do not hate, it will kill you.

Dear God,

Please do not let me be the only one who reaps what they sow in this life.
Please do not let only me be the one who gets their “what comes around”
Please let my reward be Heaven but stop this eternal Hell I am living through.
I do not want to question you or tell you how to do your job.

I prayer for the simplicity of “The Reflection”
I pray for the peace of “Internalizing”
Forgive me for those whom I have hurt
Forgive me if I have hurt you or abused the gift of life you have given me
It is in Your will the strong will survive

I pray for you to carry the person who must “See” themselves
Give them the strength when the flood of recognition comes and they see what they have caused
All else is up to them God, you can rest.

[JustPiper]

Thousands evacuated near Indiana plant fire
Advanced Magnesium Alloys Corp. plant

AKA AmaCorp, why is this too familiar?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/14/indiana.plantfire.ap/index.html

[JustPiper]

Up to Five May Be Buried in Utah Avalanche
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050115/ap_on_re_us/utah_avalanche_15

How close to Park City to the Colorado-Utah line? I know Pk. City is not far from Salt Lake City

[JustPiper]

tonight they reported a second leak at this mall, and many irate officials want to know what's going on..

"Clearly, these sorts of events do not happen and they should not happen," Romanucci said. "The force of this explosion was akin to a meteor hitting the ground."

He said Peoples Energy was responsible for maintaining the gas line that ruptured to cause the explosion and was thus named in the lawsuit.

Romanucci said attorneys planned to investigate whether there was a gas leak before the explosion occurred and whether the explosion was preventable.
more...
http://www.nbc5.com/news/4084198/detail.html

'Car came completely off the ground'

'It blew up'

(Suspicious)

Investigators Thursday were focusing on a gas line break, but it was not clear how it happened, officials from Peoples Energy said.

Whatever it was appeared to be an accident, but is under investigation, saidTom Ahern, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Officials from Peoples Energy said Thursday a 20-inch medium-pressure line was fractured, but they were still trying to determine when and how the line broke.

The line was inspected last August and no problems were reported, a Peoples spokeswoman said.

Sierra said crews had also found tunnels and diesel tanks beneath the parking lot that were being checked, as well as an above-ground regulator box blown from its fixture, he said.


more...
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-fordcity14.html

[JustPiper]

24 on Sundays (FOX)
Correction "Mondays"

[Quix]

Very well written.

Many great points.

Thanks.

[MamaDearest]

"No reason to crawl through the fence if you can drive through the gate," he said.

More Homeland Insecurity! Feds Find Millions Wasted On Border Camera System. Taxpayers just made of money to fund these poorly administered security tools. Accountablity for these very serious gaping holes in Homeland Security - None evidentally!

[JustPiper]

I like NoE ;)

[Straight Vermonter]

You mistakenly believe that these people have some sort of ideological purity. Not so. They simply seek to shift power from one region of the world to another. This talk of Shi'a vs Sunni etc may be true on the streets but not at the higher levels.

Osama would use Shaitan if he thought it would bring down the US and Israel.

Iran and Osama: Match Made In Hell

[MamaDearest]

When he was not lecturing American soldiers on Islamic fundamentalism, Mohammed was one of Bin Laden's most trusted lieutenants, teaching terrorists the tactics he had learned at Fort Bragg in Al Qaeda's camps in Sudan and Afghanistan.....snip

Just another reason the "24" show is fully within its rights to characterized ME people as anti-American with no apology needed. When they quit trying to undermine the US and its people by extreme and subversive methods, we can quit characterizing them as terrorists and traitors.

[MamaDearest]

Psychiatrists, psychologists, no medical doctor can make someone have a conscience.

What you posted tonight applies to many of us, in different areas of the post. Agreed prayer is the ultimate answer!

[Cindy]

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is quite a guy.

[Cindy]

Thanks for the link Fair Opinion.

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1160.html

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman


This information is current as of today, Sat Jan 15 2005 00:24:52 GMT-0800.


Tajikistan


January 14, 2005


This Public Announcement is being issued to update security information on potential terrorist actions against Americans in Tajikistan and add concerns due to narcotics trafficking through Tajikistan. This Public Announcement supersedes the Public Announcement dated July 19, 2004, and expires on August 12, 2005.


Elements of terrorist groups allied with al-Qa'ida, including the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and other groups, remain active in Tajikistan and still pose risks to travelers. The U.S. Government is aware of increased activity of terrorist groups in Central Asia, and recent information suggests that foreign fighters may seek to target Americans in Tajikistan. New tactics, to include the use of suicide bombers, have been employed by terrorists in neighboring Uzbekistan. In the past, the IMU has been responsible for hostage-takings and border skirmishes near the Uzbek-Tajik-Kyrgyz border areas.


In addition, Tajikistan is a known transit route for narcotics trafficking and therefore also presents all of the risks inherent with such activities. U.S. citizens should evaluate carefully the implications for their security and safety before traveling to Tajikistan. The U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe continues to observe heightened security precautions. From time to time, the U.S. Embassy restricts the travel of U.S. Embassy personnel to certain parts of Tajikistan. Before traveling outside of Dushanbe, U.S. citizens should contact the U.S. Embassy to obtain the most up-to-date security information.


Embassy staff in Dushanbe work out of an interim Embassy facility. Resources and security considerations limit the availability of some consular services. Departure options from Tajikistan may be limited in an emergency. U.S. citizens, their family members, and their dependents can maximize departure options by obtaining extended visas for travel to countries with direct flight service or reliable land connections to Tajikistan. These include Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, and India, for which visas in advance are required. Other destinations, via flights once a week only, are Turkey and Germany, which do not require American citizens to obtain visas in advance. Please note, however, that in certain emergency situations, flights may be suspended.


U.S. citizens are urged to register and update their contact information at the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe. The Embassy is located at 10 Pavlov Street, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The telephone numbers are 992-372-21-03-48, 992-372-24-15-60, 992-917-70-70-75, and 992-372-51-00-29. The fax number is 992-372-51-00-29 or 21-03-62. After hours, one can call 992-917- 70-10-22. For emergencies, the duty officer may be reached at 992-917-70-10-32. Some consular services for Tajikistan are handled in coordination with the U.S. Embassy in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The U.S. Embassy in Almaty is located at 97 Zholdasbekova, Samal-2, Almaty 480099, tel. 7-3272-50-48-02, fax 7-3272-50-48-84.


Updated information on travel and security in Tajikistan may be obtained from the Department of State by calling 1-888-407-4747 within the United States, or, from overseas, 1-317-472-2328. U.S. citizens should consult the Department of State's Consular Information Sheet for Tajikistan and the Worldwide Caution Public Announcement, which are available on the Department's Internet site at http://travel.state.gov.


 

[Cindy]

http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/34817-1.html


01/14/05

"Military eyes virtual war on terror"

By Susan M. Menke
GCN Staff

[Cindy]

US-CERT.gov: "Current Activity"
http://www.us-cert.gov/current/